- Date awarded: April 2025
- Awarded value: £1,800
- Location: Tarvit Ward, Adamson Hospital, Cupar
Listening to music can reduce stress, ease pain and lessen anxiety
Listening to music in hospital is beneficial to patients. It can reduce stress, ease pain and help lessen anxiety, promoting relaxation whilst supporting communication and emotional expression.
Music in Hospitals & Care is a charity that improves the health and wellbeing of children and adults through the healing power of music.
This charity’s values chime very much with our own, so that Fife Health Charity was only too happy to support these worthwhile sessions. Held at Tarvit Ward at Adamson Hospital in Cupar these monthly sessions provided by Music in Hospitals & Care were enjoyed by both patients and staff.
The performers and all of the acts brought lots of energy, enthusiasm and talent to our Day Room. Patients were hugely grateful for the chance to hear live music and the performers were interactive and engaging
It's wonderful having live music on the ward, and the sound carrying up the corridors. It noticeably reduces anxiety in patients who may be having a hard time or in pain. It's lovely to see patients socialise with each other and join in with the well-known songs. It brings such a boost to the day on the ward and something which is talked about for days to come.
